Ebosse emotional mum accepts award for fallen son

The mother of Cameroonian striker Albert Ebosse who died in disputed circumstances during an Algerian league match last August accepted the award for leading scorer for the 2013/14 campaign in Algiers on Wednesday AFP understands.

Ebosse's mother was visibly emotional and reduced the people at the ceremony to tears. She was quoted as saying: "If that was God's will may he rest in peace. I want to follow him."

No directors from Ebosse's former club JS Kabylie were apparently at the awards.

The circumstances surrounding his death following the 2-1 defeat by USM Algiers on August 23 has been a source of fierce debate.

The official version from the autopsy carried out in Algeria is 25-year-old Ebosse died in hospital from head injuries sustained as he left the pitch under a hail of objects thrown from the stands by angry fans.

He was apparently struck on the head by a sharp projectile, the official report said.

But a second autopsy by a Cameroonian pathologist, carried out at the family's request, refuted the official findings and declared that the player had died as the result of a brutal post-match beating, probably in a dressing room attack.

The latter theory has been hotly denied by the Algerian authorities.